Improved currier s scourer



J 6 HANKEY. UURRIERS SGOURER.

No. 52,491.. Patented Feb. 6, 1666.

YUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HANKEY, OF NORTH CAMBRIDGE, MASSACUSETTS, ASSIGNOB T() HIMSELF ANDHENRY MULLER., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPRovEDjcURRIERs scouRER.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No.I 52,491, dated February6, 1866.

.To all whom 'it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN HANKEY, of North Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented au Improved CurriersScourer; and I do hereby declare the same to befully described in thefollcwing specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, ofwhich- Figurel denotes a side view, Fig. 2 alon gitudinal section, andFig. 3 a transverse section, of it.

The common curriers scoureriu use consists simply of a piece of stoneand a wooden handie for holding it, thev stone being iXed in and so asto project from the handle. When so made the handle is very liable tobecome split o1 broken and the stone to drop out ot' it; and, besides,it aftbrds no'ready means qt' adjust- /ing the stone or projecting itmore or Less beyond the handle in .proportion as the stone may becomeworn, or as may be necessary from time to time.

` In carrying out my invention I combine with the stone and the woodenhandlel a metallic socket-piece fastened to the handle and provided witha recess to receive the stone, and I also provide the handle withcertain adjusting-screws and recesses for reception ot' their heads andto allow them to enter the handle as the screws may be driven forwardtherein from time to time, in order 'to move the stone in the socket.

In the drawings, A denotes the wooden han'- represented.

dle, B the scouring-stone, and G the metallic ysocket-piece. l The saidsocket-piece is screwed or wedges, or other suitable means, and so as toproject from the socket-piece in manner-as- Two cylindrical holes, aa,.are bored in the handle A, so as to extend into it about one-f halfits depth, they being large. enough to receive the heads of the screws bb, which are screwed into the handle and against the inner edge of thestone, the whole being as shown in- Fig. 2.

When the scou'rer is made in the improved manner described the stone maybe used with any amount of pressure on the hide or skin without dangerof breaking the handle, and also may be set out from the socket-piece bythe screws, as circumstances may require, as it may become more or lessworn. I claim-' The improved curriers scourer as made with the metallicsocket-piece, combined and arranged with the handle and the stone, andwith the said handle provided with the adj usting-screws andthey-,recesses for .reception of their heads, substantially asdescribed.

' J OHN HAN KEY.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr..

